Ellen Parnell and her husband, Donald Parnell Jr., seem like the kind of well-off couple President Barack Obama has in mind when he suggests raising taxes on families earning more than $250,000 a year. A surgeon at Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center in Sevierville, Tenn., he drives an Infiniti. They vacation at a beach resort every year.

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Sevierville is right in the middle of Appalachia near Knoxville, TN. Perhaps ariechert can comment, but I suspect $250,000/yr. in that neck of the woods is a fortune.

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